Rep. Alan Casavant, a dangerous man
Yesterday afternoon, the legislature released the committee assignment lists, naming each legislator to one of the myriad legislative committees. As an education policy guy, the first list I checked was […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 8
Part D (2) of the Race to the Top application has to do with “improving teacher and principal effectiveness based on performance.” This single section of the application is worth […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 5
The second major section of the Race to the Top application relates to “standards and assessments,” and while this section of the application is rather long, there isn’t a whole […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 3
In Part 3 of my series on Maine’s Race to the Top application, we look at section A(2) of the application, which has to do with the state’s capacity to […]
Read More →Live Blogging the Education Committee’s June meeting
4:00 pm: Ending on time, and a good meeting overall – good to see the committee throwing its weight around a little. There wasn’t nearly enough of this last legislative […]
Read More →Charter schools for Maine? Part 2
My hope had been that I would able, by now, to report that the Legislature’s Education Committee had voted the charter school bill out and sent it on to the […]
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